Al Bergstein
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Have you opened the Activity Monitor and watched memory usage as you ran Pr? I found that my crashes seem to be related to memory, and upgrading to 32GBs has now stabilized the machine for the time being.
Al
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Update to RAM seemed to help for a few days, but the problem has returned. I’m not even close to running out of RAM. I’m suspecting the CUDA driver with OS 10.11.3 and something with Pr. I do not have any problems with any other piece of software, including PS, LR, AE etc.
Al
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I’ve posted elsewhere about a very similar problem. I too agree that it’s either CUDA or perhaps we are running out of Graphics card RAM. I’ve upgraded my system to 32 GBs but the crashing has returned. It happens after I have been on the timeline, and move to another spot on the timeline, as if it locked up while trying to load a new image. I am on the latest OS, and CUDA driver. I’ll try disabling it.
Al
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Another clue. I turned off all the video tracks. Started with about 12 GBs of RAM used by both program and cache. Ran the audio tracks and it hardly budged, and ran through the whole track without problems. Rendered the audio track for the client and all is fine. So it appears to be video throughput and memory related in some way. I’ll install the RAM tomorrow and try and see if the problems go away. Hopefully it won’t be from my 2GB Nvidia video card maxing out.
I’m not using 4K footage. Just some simple 1080p footage like I’ve always used, but I am using Rampart video effects, some rather straightforward montage creations, nothing fancy. But I supposed they could eat up a lot of RAM to implement on the timeline. I’ve not encountered any issues like this before with Rampart’s products running me out of RAM, but …there’s always a first time.
More tomorrow or Saturday. Hope this post helps future troubleshooting.
Al
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Its very similar to the throughput I’m also getting out of my pure TB RAID 1 drive. For HD 1080 that drive is showing 31 and 32 MBPS. (for 4:2:2 10 bit YUV)
Al
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I just ran the speed test on the RAID 5 ESDI drive. I’m showing 129MB writes per second and as high as 163 Reads P.S. At HD 1080 Settings it shows 24 MBPS writes and 35 MBPS reads.
Thoughts?
Al
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I’ll try and do that tomorrow David. Yes, it’s been fine and I ran a disk check on it.
I may be onto something. My machine is 16GBs. I show around the time of the crashing, that Memory Used is at about 8GB and Cached files shows about 7. I’m wondering if I’m running out of memory on this? I had a similar thing happen when I topped 8GBS on Windows some time back. I did just order 32 GBs of RAM for it, and it should be here tomorrow. I’ll see if that changes anything. I don’t understand what the cached files is used for as opposed to swap files (I know the difference but not how Pr uses the two).
Thanks in advance for your help.
Al
Al
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GoPro?
Al
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Ebay is the best place to get a good value for your money. You didn’t mention whether you could live with a very limited set of features or not. I found that the best value with semi-professional features in the low en of the camcorder range are Panasonic camcorders. The current 970k series or even on eBay for the previous versions of it, all are good solid performers, that I’ve used in the past as b cams for live performances. You get audio ins’, manual focus and exposure, and dual card features.
Al
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Thanks Nick. Yes, I’m generally of the same point of view. It’s not that I don’t have trust in my possible partner, but that we just want to make sure that we have something in writing that protects basics. As mentioned, I’ve worked with this kind of collaboration in the States, but as you point out, crossing international boundaries is tricky.
Maybe the best thing on this kind of collaboration is to agree to work together just long enough to determine whether there is anything worth doing, in a real project sense. Cobble together a treatment, and some basic pitch documentation, and if there is enough interest to move beyond that into a real formal script, take it to the lawyers then. My previous collaboration was to take a book and work with the author to turn it into a script, so we needed the legal agreement to clarify what would happen if the script sold.
That way we can both call it quits without much of an investment, by simply helping do a treatment I’m not acting in a way that would call into question the authorship of the original material he has created, and that ultimately would look to use in a script. He has subject matter expertise, but not a storyline. I have a storyline but need his subject matter expertise. Thanks for your thoughts.
I put this out here to also help others that may find themselves in a similar situation.
Al